Here I was getting all pi55ed about my unique ship collection and mine BPOs... how are you doing Entity? I bet you are livid!

I am not pleased atm...

Give the guy a break people! It was a mistake.
Im especially confused about the whiney responses from some very famous EVE players.
CCP Greyscale already said that it was going to be fixed, read the thread before moaning. It's another mistake and suddenly everyone breaks down and starts the standard "I hate CCP" bandwagon again.

Why not work with CCP and let them know exactly what you lost and try to assist them in their quest to clear out the database, that way you might get your stuff back faster and you'll be helping rather than just posting rubbish on the forums.

... Leaving one of these things in the DB because some player has acquired one illicitly ...

we have things in the DB that appear to be in game but which nobody can remember *why* they're ingame, is more likely to happen in future.

This is exactly the kind of ongoing problem that we were trying to prevent in the first place with this cleanup.

It time CCP acknowledge the collectors of eve and add an actual collectors item class, that cannot be fitted etc.

And whenever you feel you need to "clean up" you just move the item to this new class with no stats thus making the item itself "useless" but still a valid collectors item that can be sold and linked in chat...

I cant see any problem whatsoever with this approach, just drop all stats of the item except the description and change class type to "collectors item"

Perhaps CCP can give us a list of whats been deleted

...or you might just get banned.

Were the Creation only skills like Genetic Engineering and Mneumonics that were recently removed part of this clean up?
Are the other rare skillbooks alson in danger of being removed? Like Salvage Drone Operation....

Heh... that sounds like a threat! I like seeing the fire. ...that said, I think you might be getting a bit big for your britches.

How about Mining Drone - UNUSED? Are you telling me that 3B that I've spent to acquire those items have gone to waste?

If you guys really want a piece of history of eve, screen shot all your items and keep those in your computer.

A piece of history of Eve would be the first Quafe T-shirt, a Lego-Nyx, Leviathan dildo and so on. Pixels have no value if they don't belong to you...ho wait, that's exactly what it is !

What is this script? Is it something you've released publicly or is it an Entity only script? This has made me think about what else I might loose. I'd love a copy if you don't mind!

Threads like this make me die a little on the inside. Incase all of you raging nutjobs have forgotten, EVE IS A GAME. a f*cking game!! Yea, maybe just blindly deleting a bunch of "Unused" items wasn't the smartest way of handling things, but ffs you are all having a b*tch fit like they stole your house and car keys. Seriously. gtfo of your basement and go enjoy REAL LIFE. Then come back, and you will realize that those pixels aren't really that big of a deal...if your UNUSABLE eve items mean that much to you,you might need to re-evaluate your life...

A concerned citizen of REAL LIFE.

I wrote this a week ago & held back on posting it because it sounded like our items were going to be restored quickly. As it has instead been swept under the rug, I hope this will bring focus to what is really at issue here. Please excuse the ::WALLOFTEXT::



Collecting as a Profession.

Hi again,

Just finished resurrecting the following types:
Anaconda Mine
Anaconda Mine Blueprint
Asp Mine
Asp Mine Blueprint
Chalcopyrite
Cobra Mine
Cobra Mine Blueprint
Hellhound I
Mimir Blueprint
Mining Drone - Elite
Mining Drone - Improved (with fixed name)
Python Mine
Python Mine Blueprint

We beat the kinks out of our pipeline and these now all exist again internally with the original typeIDs.

We now have a clear process for getting these back onto TQ and then restoring them to everyone who owned them. Exact timescale TBC but I hope to have this wrapped up by Escalation at the latest.

Thanks again for your patience,
-Greyscale

+1, unless CCP has some evidence of wrong-doing. Or exchange it for a rare item of similar value.
It's not nice to take people's stuff.

Dear CCP Greyscale, you did not mention what is going to happen to Mining Drone - UNUSED. We paid billions for these drones. Please give us a response!

Perhaps I am being paranoid, but isn't Mining Drone - UNUSED unique in itself, and then there are Mining Drone - Improved and Mining Drone - Elite?

Or did Greyscale convert UNUSED to IMPROVED? I just finished the class on Derivatives so my head is not functioning properly. I apologize for the rebundancies.

I'm a little disturbed at how casually they were prepared to discard the extra blueprint data. If anyone researched those, that was still time they spent not researching something else. And it was put forth like it was no big deal that they would have lost that time. If you don't value every minute of time a player pays you to play this game then you are doing it wrong.